HOSTAGE RESCUED, SUSPECT NABBED IN KIDNAPPING ON WESTERN SLOPE

Grand Junction and Palisade police rescued a female hostage and captured a gun-toting, knife-wielding suspect - the brutal outcome of a failed relationship. Monday's incident began at the Mesa Studios at 704 Horizon Drive in Grand Junction - and the hostage and suspect were found at a home in the 100-block of Bacon Court in nearby Palisade, according to Grand Junction police. The suspect - identified as Juan Sanchez, 48 - "entered an apartment and held three individuals, a female and two males, at gunpoint and threatened to kill them if they called the police," police said. "The suspect then robbed, assaulted, and stabbed one of the men, before forcing the female, with whom he had previously been in a relationship, into a vehicle and driving away," police said. "The male who was stabbed was transported to the hospital in a personal vehicle and sustained serious bodily injuries" - and hospital staff alerted 911, police said. Sanchez, who was taken into custody without incident, was booked into the Mesa County Detention Facility on charges including kidnapping, assault and false imprisonment. Cash bond was set at $250,000, according to jail records.